Martlesham Antiques is a family run business and has been trading since 1984. We are located in Suffolk just outside Woodbridge and is run from a spacious thatched cottage housing nine large showrooms with a vast adjacent car park. Specialising in 18th and 19th century furniture, together with creating custom hand-made furniture which is supplied to various interior designers, trade and the retail market. Every piece on the showroom floor is in excellent condition and ready to go straight into the buyers home or premises. All of Martlesham Antiques furniture is hand polished by their own French polishers and restorers to a very high standard. We are also a member of LAPADA, the association of art and antiques.
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Pair of Early 20th Century Mahogany Carlton House Desk's
Certified DealerApproved listing1684 sales by dealerFree DeliveryAvailable for local pick-up
Certified DealerApproved item1684 sales by dealerFree DeliveryAvailable for local pick-up
Description
A fabulous quality near pair of freestanding early 20th Century mahogany and inlaid Carlton house desk's, both desks having a super structure comprising of four mahogany inlaid drawers at the centre with original brass turned knob handles, cupboards either side with workable lock and key with a single fixed shelf inside, there is a pull out writing slide with a black leather writing surface decorated with blind and gold tooling, stationary compartments either side with lift up lids to reveal a pen tray and various compartments, at each corner there are pull out letter slides with concave fronts and at the top there are letter slots, both letter slides and the lift up stationary compartments also have workable locks and keys. The frieze below having two mahogany lined drawers with original brass ring handles, standing on square tapering legs with with spade feet.
Both desks are near identical in every way including the dimensions, the only difference is the inlaid figure heads on the lift up lids and sides, one is of a male and the other a female, so they could be used as "His & Hers" writing desks. The desks are in excellent condition and profusely inlaid all over incorporating various figure heads, urns and floral inlay.
measurements
Height:
104 mm
Width:
122 mm
Depth:
61 mm
measurements
declaration
Martlesham Antiques has clarified that the Pair of Early 20th Century Mahogany Carlton House Desk's (LA498740) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being c.1910